Gravitational-wave detectors have captured their biggest spectacle yet: two gargantuan, rapidly spinning black holes likely ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near the Tri-Cities and its twin in Louisiana detected ripples of time and space passing through ...

Learn more about LIGO, the observatory that detected two massive black holes merging, the largest in recorded history.

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected an ...

The Trump administration has proposed closing either the LIGO Hanford observatory in WA or its twin in Louisiana.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is no stranger to making history and breaking records. In 2015 ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

A collaboration between humanity’s three gravitational wave detectors have identified a black hole merger event that created ...